The former general manager at Uncle Bubba’s Seafood and Oyster House suffered “violent, sexist and racist behavior” at the hands of Earl W. “Bubba” Hiers, including violations of federal civil rights laws, her lawyers allege in an amended lawsuit.

The action for Lisa T. Jackson filed in Chatham County Superior Court on Friday also alleged Hiers’ conduct was “not only tolerated, but actively enabled” by his sister, Savannah celebrity chef Paula Deen, and other management members in her restaurant enterprises, including The Lady & Sons.

Hiers’ conduct “was so offensive that no reasonable person should be required to tolerate it as a condition of employment,” the amendment alleged.

Jackson, who was general manager at the Whitemarsh Island site for five years before leaving Aug. 19, 2010, initially sued Deen and her business defendants including Hiers on March 5.

Jackson was forced to leave town to find work, the suit said.

She alleged sexual harassment and a persistent pattern of racial discrimination in the workplace.

In her amended complaint, Jackson complained she suffered from “violent behavior by Bubba Hiers, violent behavior that included sexual harassment as well as racial harassment, assault, battery and other humiliating conduct” on employees she managed.

Jackson is represented by Savannah attorney S. Wesley Woolf, who is now joined by attorney Matthew C. Billips of Atlanta.

She charged that Hiers was “bigoted against African Americans and women” and is “well known to have frequent violent outbursts, often while under the almost constant state of intoxication in which he lives his life.”

“Bubba Hiers subjected Ms. Jackson to sexual harassment nearly every single day Ms. Jackson came to work for over five (5) years,” the suit alleged.

And Jackson, who is white, now alleges her father is Sicilian with extremely dark complexion that “has been mistaken for being African-American” and that she has experienced “prejudice and discrimination on account of this familial association.”

She also alleges her two nieces are biracial.

Defense attorneys have contended in court filings that because Jackson is white she cannot claim racial discrimination.

Her amended complaint has added several alleged violations of federal civil rights acts against racial discrimination in a hostile work environment and disparate treatment in her employment.